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Ramsbottom Medical Practice

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Ramsbottom Health Centre, Carr Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire, BL0 9DD (01706) 824413

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Ramsbottom Medical Practice

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Background to this inspection

Updated 10 August 2018

Ramsbottom Medical Practice provides general medical services to 8459 patients within the Bury Clinical Commissioning Group area. Services are provided from Ramsbottom Health Centre, Carr Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9DD

The practice has a website that contains comprehensive information about what they do to support their patient population and the in house and online services offered:

Website: www.ramsbottomhc.nhs.uk

Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is located as number nine on the deprivation scale of one to ten. (The lower the number the higher the deprivation). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services.

The practice offers services that include the national screening programmes for cervical screening, breast screening, bowel screening and abdominal aortic aneurysm screening.

The patient population comprises of:

White: 96.8%

Mixed race: 1.2%

Asian: 1.6%

Black: 0.3%

Other race: 0.1%

There are five GPs working at the practice. Two GPs are partners (one male and one female) and three are salaried GPs (two male and one female). The GPs work between four and eight sessions per week. There is a practice nurse, two health care support workers and a phlebotomist. All of these staff are female and work part time. There is a practice manager and an office manager who lead a team of reception staff.

The practice’s regulated activities are:

Diagnostic and screening procedures

Family planning

Maternity and midwifery services

Surgical procedures

Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 10 August 2018

This practice is rated as Good overall. (Previous rating November 2016 – Good)

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Ramsbottom Medical Practice on 11 July 2018 as part of our inspection programme

The key questions at this inspection are rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

Are services effective? – Good

Are services caring? – Good

Are services responsive? – Good

Are services well-led? - Good

At this inspection we found:

  • The practice had clear systems to manage risk so that safety incidents were less likely to happen. When incidents did happen, the practice learned from them and improved their processes.
  • The practice routinely reviewed the effectiveness and appropriateness of the care it provided. It ensured that care and treatment was delivered according to evidence- based guidelines.
  • Staff involved and treated patients with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.
  • Patients found the appointment system easy to use and reported that they were able to access care when they needed it.
  • There was a strong focus on continuous learning and improvement at all levels of the organisation.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGPChief Inspector of General Practice

Please refer to the detailed report and the evidence tables for further information.